A low cost smart metering infrastructure with centralized demand response management

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to illustrate a cost-effective smart meter. It is designed to measure the demand's power consumption and support the new requirements for operation and control functions in the distribution networks. Also, we propose and implement a novel DR program for this SM. The smart meter can be used as energy meter or as power quality meter (10 seconds, average). Based on open source technologies, it offers a plurality of communication possibilities, like USB, Ethernet, ZigBee or WLAN (802.11n). Additional calculations can be done within the external central system (DR Manager).